Download or read book Liberation Memories written by Keith Gilyard and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to strengthen our understanding of this important literary figure, Keith Gilyard departs from standard critical frameworks to reveal Killens's novels as artful renderings of rich African American rhetorical forms and verbal traditions.".
Download or read book Re living the Second Chimurenga written by Fay Chung and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This retrospective offers a first hand account on internal conflicts in ZANU during the 1970s, which resulted in the defeat of its left wing. Chung's narratives include her experiences in two guerrilla camps. She recalls her encounters with the charismatic Josiah Tongogara, a legendary military commander during Zimbabwe's liberation war (known as the ©second chimurenga♯), who died at the threshold to Independence. The personal recollection of a transition to national sovereignty concludes with an incisive analysis of developments after Independence. It ends with Chung's vision for the Zimbabwe of the future. Fay Chung served within the Ministry of Education in post-colonial Zimbabwe for a total of fourteen years, at the end as the Minister of Education and Culture. Her autobiographical account has the childhood experiences in colonial Rhodesia as a point of departure. Like many other Zimbabwean intellectuals she joined the liberation struggle. From the mid-1970s she worked within the ZANU-organised educational sphere.
Download or read book Politics and Cultures of Liberation written by Frank Mehring and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” How is the national framed within a dynamic system of intercultural contact zones highlighting often competing agendas of remembrance? How does the production, (re)mediation, and framing of narratives within different social, territorial, and political environments determine the cultural memory of liberation? The articles compiled in this volume seek to provide new interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on the politics and cultures of liberation by examining commemorative practices, artistic responses, and audio-visual media that lend themselves for transnational exploration. They offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy from the war years, through the Cold War era to the 21st century.
Download or read book Dachau 29 April 1945 written by Sam Dann and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of the Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry discuss what it was like to participate in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April of 1945.
Download or read book The Road to Liberation written by Moon-Hyun Yoon and published by 연화사. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1)It refers to a fine, soft, and smooth peduncle. It has the same meaning as touch, the sixth of the 12 relationships, and refers to the sense of touch that causes fine, soft, and smooth pleasure. 2)It refers to six superhuman abilities of freedom and freedom. That is, the divine-foot-path, which allows the body to appear as the mind desires, the heavenly-eye-path, which does not hinder the ability to see the life, death, sorrow, and joys of the six paths of living beings, and the various forms of the world, and the suffering and suffering of the six paths of living beings. Heavenly hearing, capable of hearing the language of happiness, anxiety, and joy, and various voices of the world; Tasimtong, knowing well the thoughts in the hearts of all beings in the six paths; and the destiny of the past life of oneself and the six living beings. It refers to the fateful tong (宿命通), which knows things well, and the progressive tong (漏盡通) that cuts off all the sufferings of the three worlds and does not receive birth and death in the three worlds. 3)The Sanskrit word is paca-kāmaguṇa, and it is also called the five myo-yok, the five myo-yok, and the five myo-saks. It refers to the five desires caused by obsession with the five boundaries of color, nature, scent, taste, and touch. In other words, it refers to lust, sexual desire, pleasure, lust, and lust. 4)It is also called the 10 paths of good karma, and is the opposite of the 10 paths of evil. 10Evil karma means committing acts of killing, stealing, adultery, lying, profane words, harsh words, sly words, greed, anger, and foolishness. Avoiding the above ten evils is the 10 good karma paths. 5)It refers to the five defilements that cover the nature of the mind and prevent good dharma from occurring: greed, anger, lethargy, delusion, and doubt. 6)Among the six paramitas, it refers to the jhana paramita. 7)In the new translation, each view is translated as review. Gak (覺) means to pursue and reason, which means thinking roughly about the principles of things, and gwan (觀) refers to the mental action of thinking carefully about the name and meaning of a method. These two impede the righteous mind of the second Zen or higher, so if they continue, the body and mind become tired and damaged, and they become obstacles to righteous thoughts. Depending on the presence or absence of each of these organs, it is possible to determine whether the depth of the right mind is shallow or deep. In Volume 21 of 『Chapahamgyeong』, it is said, “Having awareness and contemplation is called nine actions.” Since the angles and tubes are the cause of language, language does not exist apart from the angles and tubes. 8)Profit, non-profit, fame, obscurity, discussion, non-discussion, suffering, pleasure, etc. 9)It is also called worldly way or worldly way, and is the opposite concept of Murudo. It is called Yurudo because it is related to the practice of bringing about the consequences of the three worlds, including humans and heaven. 10) It is also called the fourth heart, and refers to the four hearts of self-love, sorrow, joy, and sorrow. 11) Also called the Four Minds, it observes that the body is unclean through self-image and fantasy, observes that perception is painful, observes that the mind is impermanent, and observes that the mind is impermanent. It refers to observing this non-self (no-self) and replacing the four inherited contemplative methods of meditation, pleasure, appearance, and self. 12) It is also called the 4th process, and it is an empty-rooted decision, a food-free decision, a non-possessed decision, and an emergency non-injury decision. ) refers to Gongmubyeoncheojeong transcends the fourth jhana of the form of meditation, destroys and eliminates all thoughts that hinder jhāna, and thinks that space is infinite. Consciousness and consciousness are thought to be infinite, transcending emptiness and consciousness. The non-possessing state transcends the non-possessing state and corresponds to non-possession, and one thinks about the idea of non-possession and settles on it. Non-non-possessive pre-condition transcends the non-possessive pre-disposition, thinks and possesses the concept [相] of non-possessive, non-possessive, and settles in it. This Jeong (定) is different from the annihilated Jeong (想) because it is the predominant form of ignorance (無明), and it is also different from the impermanent Jeong (無想定) because it is not impermanent (無想). 13) It is also called the 7 points of knowledge and 7 parts of vision. It is a practice that corresponds to the sixth class among the 37 classes. First, awareness of awareness is having a clear mind and always keeping jhāna and wisdom in mind. Second, the way to choose the law is to rely on wisdom to choose the true law and discard the false law. Third, Jeongjin-gakji (精進覺支) means devoting oneself to cultivating and learning the Dharma (Dharma) and not showing a lazy mind. Fourth, enlightenment is the joy of attaining the right Dharma. Fifth, Gyeongangakji (輕安覺支), also known as Uigakji (猗覺支), is when the body and mind are light, comfortable, and comfortable. Sixth, clear awareness is not being distracted by meditation. Seventh, blind spot is maintaining balance without the mind being biased or obsessed. 14) It refers to the five sense organs of sentient beings. The five sense organs, including the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, produce emotions and are therefore called the five emotions.
Download or read book Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe written by Lungile Augustine Tshuma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After assuming power in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) has sought to control the narrative of the struggle for liberation from colonialism, to the exclusion of other players such as the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). This book investigates the ways in which photographs are being used within Zimbabwe, especially on social media, to challenge the prevailing narrative and reclaim the memories of the subjugated. The book analyses the photographs produced by Zenzo Nkobi during the struggle against colonialism. Drawing on the memories of veterans from ZAPU and its military wing the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), the book shows that photographs can both act as a conduit for existing narratives, and as a tool for shaping memory narratives, and evidencing ZPRA military prowess ahead of other movements. At a time when Zimbabwe is reassessing the legacy of liberation, this book offers a powerful multidisciplinary assessment for researchers across the fields of history, memory, political science, African studies, and media studies.
Download or read book Memory as Burden and Liberation written by Anna Wolff-Powęska and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines ways in which Germans struggle with the Nazi past. It is a reflection upon the reasons why German reckoning with the past became a process of contradictions and shows the specific character of German collective memory in relation to the helplessness and moral condition of a nation defending itself in the face of unimaginable evil.
Download or read book Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde written by Miguel Cardina and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory takes as its reference from the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and the ways this period has been publicly remembered. Drawing on original and detailed empirical research, it presents novel insights into the complex entanglements between colonial pasts and political memories of anti-colonialism in shaping new nations arising out of liberation struggles. Broadening postcolonial memory studies by emphasising underdeveloped research cases, it provides the first comprehensive research into how the liberation struggle is memorialised in Cape Verde and why it changes over time. Proposing an innovative approach to thinking about this historical event as a political subject, the book argues that the "struggle" constitutes a mnemonic device mobilised while negotiating contemporaneous representations related to the Cape Verdean nation, state and society. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, anthropology and politics with interests in memory studies and public memory, postcolonialisms and African studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Download or read book John Oliver Killens written by Keith Gilyard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His works of fiction and nonfiction, the most famous of which is his novel Youngblood, have been translated into more than a dozen languages. An influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher, he was the founding chair of the Harlem Writers Guild and mentored a generation of black writers at Fisk, Howard, Columbia, and elsewhere. Killens is recognized as the spiritual father of the Black Arts Movement. In this first major biography of Killens, Keith Gilyard examines the life and career of the man who was perhaps the premier African American writer-activist from the 1950s to the 1980s. Gilyard extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens's times and literary achievement--from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Figuring prominently in these pages are the many important African American artists and political figures connected to the author from the 1930s to the 1980s--W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Alphaeus Hunton, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, and Maya Angelou, among others.
Download or read book Critical Voicings of Black Liberation written by Kimberley Louise Phillips and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to Critical Voices of Black Liberation in the Americas originated from the 1999 CAAR Conference in Munster and from conferences held in the US in 2000 and 2001. More than half of the eleven essays consider black performances on stage, in sound, and on film; the remaining essays explore slavery, African American literature, and nineteenth-century black educators. These exciting essays creatively examine artistic and/or political articulation of black liberation as the construction of a new critical and signifyin(g) voice. This liberated and critical voice asserts itself as much as a communal expression of black subjectivities as it is an articulation of the black self.
Download or read book Remembering to Forget written by Barbie Zelizer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AcknowledgmentsI: Collective Memories, Images, and the Atrocity of War II: Before the Liberation: Journalism, Photography, and the Early Coverage of Atrocity III: Covering Atrocity in Word IV: Covering Atrocity in Image V: Forgetting to Remember: Photography as Ground of Early Atrocity MemoriesVI: Remembering to Remember: Photography as Figure of Contemporary Atrocity Memories VII: Remembering to Forget: Contemporary Scrapbooks of Atrocity Notes Selected Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book On Violence written by Bruce B. Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it. On Violence is divided into five sections. Underscoring the connection between violence and economic world orders, the first section explores the dialectical relationship between domination and subordination. The second section brings together pieces by political actors who spoke about the tension between violence and nonviolence—Gandhi, Hitler, and Malcolm X—and by critics who have commented on that tension. The third grouping examines institutional faces of violence—familial, legal, and religious—while the fourth reflects on state violence. With a focus on issues of representation, the final section includes pieces on the relationship between violence and art, stories, and the media. The editors’ introduction to each section highlights the significant theoretical points raised and the interconnections between the essays. Brief introductions to individual selections provide information about the authors and their particular contributions to theories of violence. With selections by: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Osama bin Laden, Pierre Bourdieu, André Breton, James Cone, Robert M. Cover, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, René Girard, Linda Gordon, Antonio Gramsci, Félix Guattari, G. W. F. Hegel, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hobbes, Bruce B. Lawrence, Elliott Leyton, Catharine MacKinnon, Malcolm X, Dorothy Martin, Karl Marx, Chandra Muzaffar, James C. Scott, Kristine Stiles, Michael Taussig, Leon Trotsky, Simone Weil, Sharon Welch, Raymond Williams
Download or read book Cultures of Commemoration written by Keith L. Camacho and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 the Japanese military attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Although much has been debated about this event and the wider American and Japanese involvement in the war, few scholars have explored the Pacific War’s impact on Pacific Islanders. Cultures of Commemoration fills this crucial gap in the historiography by advancing scholarly understanding of Pacific Islander relations with and knowledge of American and Japanese colonialisms in the twentieth century. Drawing from an extensive archival base of government, military, and popular records, Chamorro scholar Keith L Camacho traces the formation of divergent colonial and indigenous histories in the Mariana Islands, an archipelago located in the western Pacific and home to the Chamorro people. He shows that US colonial governance of Guam, the southernmost island, and that of Japan in the Northern Mariana Islands created competing colonial histories that would later inform how Americans, Chamorros, and Japanese experienced and remembered the war and its aftermath. Central to this discussion is the American and Japanese administrative development of "loyalty" and "liberation" as concepts of social control, collective identity, and national belonging. Just how various Chamorros from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands negotiated their multiple identities and subjectivities is explored with respect to the processes of history and memory-making among this "Americanized" and "Japanized" Pacific Islander population. In addition, Camacho emphasizes the rise of war commemorations as sites for the study of American national historic landmarks, Chamorro Liberation Day festivities, and Japanese bone-collecting missions and peace pilgrimages. Ultimately, Cultures of Commemoration demonstrates that the past is made meaningful and at times violent by competing cultures of American, Chamorro, and Japanese commemorative practices.
Download or read book Purification of Memory written by Ambrose Mong and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although its various bodies boast a combined total of at least 300 million members, the Eastern Orthodox Church is widely perceived among members of other denominations to be an exotic branch of the faith, often shrouded in mysticism and misunderstandingthat has been exacerbated by the longstanding Eastern-Western split. In 'Purification of Memory', Ambrose Mong casts light on the true nature of Orthodox theology, illuminating the thinking of eight distinguished modern Orthodox theologians who have madeimportant contributions on topics as ecclesiology, ecumenism, Christology, and Mariology. Approaching the work of John Meyendorff, Nicholas Afanasiev, John Zizioulas, Georges Florovsky, Sergius Bulgakov, Vladimir Lossky, Nicolas Berdyaev, and Jaroslav Pelikan from an ecumenical standpoint, Mong deftly draws comparisons with the theology of their Roman Catholic counterparts to reveal points on which the two traditions have much more in common than either side will always admit. The author interweaves these comparisons with a fascinating exposition of the history of the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches to demonstrate decisively that in spite of the bitter mistrust dividing them, they share a common heritage which could, and should, serve as a basis for reunification. Before old wounds can mend, however, a healing process of forgetting, characterized by Pope John Paul II as a 'purification of memory', must take place to clear the path towards a long-awaited return to unity.
Download or read book The Liberation s Child written by Lucy Cruickshanks and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a Britain of the near future, haunted by its past in which the traces of genocide lay just below the surface, two survivors, Thea and Dom, are on a journey to uncover the truth behind an illegal adoption ring and to find a missing baby. Their search for the truth puts both of their lives in danger and uncovers that new Free and Equal Britain is not just a memory. As Dom and Thea’s paths collide, they unearth not only adoption crimes on an industrial scale, but links to fugitive FEB-era politicians that both Dom and Thea still have deeply personal reasons to resent — and fear. Will Dom discover the truth about the child he hoped would rebuild his family? Will Thea find her daughter? Will the past continue to block their way?
Download or read book Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe written by Siobhan Kattago and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that the issue is less of whether one should remember, but rather how to internalize the various lessons of the past for the future of Europe. Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe thus offers the reader occasions upon which to take stock of different but overlapping contours of past and present in contemporary Europe.
Download or read book Art and Liberation written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society, and his writings on culture and art generate the possibility of liberation and radical social transformation. The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for Marcuse’s eightieth birthday with exchange of letters; and many articles that explore the role of art in society and how it provides possibilities for liberation. This volume will be of interest to those new to Marcuse, generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social milieus of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the specialist, giving access to a wealth of material from the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt and his private collection in San Diego, some of it published here in English for the first time. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner reflects on the genesis, development, and tensions within Marcuse’s aesthetic, while an afterword by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser summarizes their relevance for the contemporary era.
